Ashes Grmmar
Sunny Day In Glasgow
CD Rel Date: 2009-09-22
2009 release. Opening with a 10 second homage to Estonian composer Arvo Part, it's immediately apparent that A Sunny Day in Glasgow's Ashes Grammar is going to be a much more visceral outing than their 2007 album debut, Scribble Mural Comic Journal. It takes a few minutes for the record to even begin to reveal itself, as a swarm of 1950s a-capella ('Secrets at the Prom') gives way to resonant drones, room noise, and sub bass ('Slaughter Killing Carnage'). It's here that 'Failure' unexpectedly kicks in with a tribal stomp and a fluttering guitar acting as a pair of wings, lifting the circular chants of the song's melody off the ground. It's all at once joyous, insecure, and blissed out and sounds nothing like we've heard from A Sunny Day in Glasgow before.
Tracklist:
- Magna For Annie, Josh, and Robin
- Secrets at the Prom
- Slaughter Killing Carnage (The Meaning of Words)
- Failure
- Curse Words
- Close Chorus
- Shy
- Lights
- Passionate Introverts (Dinosaurs)
- West Philly Vocoder
- Evil, With Evil, Against Evil
- White Witch, The
- Nitetime Rainbows
- Canalfish
- Loudly
- Blood White
- Ashes Grammar
- Ashes Math
- Miss My Friends
- Starting at a Disadvantage
- Life's Great
- Headphone Space